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He was President following FDR's death and was faced with the decision of using the atomic bomb as a means to bring WWII to an end.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
A wall that the Soviets constructed in the middle of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall
100
A war fought with words, threats, politics, and economics rather than soldiers, bombs, and guns.
What is the Cold War?
100
Winston Churchill's description of how the Soviets were dividing Europe, by controlling countries and capitals of Eastern Europe that created a buffer zone for Russia and kept the Soviets in control.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
He is credited for developing a plan that would help Europe recover more quickly from the devastation of WWII.
Who is George C. Marshall?
200
A dividing line that passes through Korea, dividing the peninsula into North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
200
This conflict occurred between 1950-1950 and was initiated by North Korea crossing the border into South Korea.
What is Korean War/Conflict
200
A strategy of economic aid for European countries after WWII. Known officially as the European Economic Recovery plan, it required countries work together, were accountable for the resources they were given and planned their own recovery.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What is NATO?
300
He became the communist leader of North Korea, following the election of a "pro-western" leader in South Korea.
Who is Kim Il-Sung?
300
These are the capitals of North and South Korea
What is Pyongyang and Seoul?
300
In this election, the newspapers got it wrong.
What is Dewey vs. Truman?
300
This is the belief that Soviets wanted to take over the world and needed to be stopped.
What is containment?
300
The date that North Korea crossed the 38th parallel.
What is June 25, 1950?
400
He fought in WWI, was the commander of the South Pacific during WWII, and was the chief commander during the Korean Conflict.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
400
MacArthur launched a counter-attack in this S. Korean city.
What is Inchon?
400
The attempt by the US and Great Britain to supply West Berlin with food and supplies following a blockade instituted by the Soviet Union.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
This was a military and political alliance among Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
These were two advantages the U.S. had over other countries at the end of WWII.
What is the atomic bomb, the US had not been devastated by the war.
500
He was the leader of the Soviet Union who ordered the Berlin wall to be built.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
Shiang Kai Chek lived on this island during the Korean Conflict.
What is Taiwan?
500
Czechoslavakian resistance effort to establish a republican form of government, free of Communist rule.
What is Prague Spring
500
The belief that the Russia was no threat to the U.S. and that the U.S. should strive to work with the Soviet Union in any matter possible.
What is accommodation?
500
Because Truman did not allow MacArthur to invade China he earned this reputation.
What is "soft on Communism"